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Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

Dear listeners, here is a list of things: Emotions you don’t understand upon viewing a sunset. Lost pets found. Lost pets unfound. A secret lost pet city on the moon. Trees that see. Restaurants that hear. A void that thinks. A face half-seen just before falling asleep. Trembling hands reaching for desperately needed items. Sandwiches. Silence when there should be noise. Noise when there should be silence. Nothing when you want something. Something when you thought there was nothing. Clear plastic binder sheets. Scented dryer sheets. Rain coming down in sheets. Night. Rest. Sleep. End.

Collages for magnificent nature

STEP ONE: A SEDUCTION (she wraps her pretty red lips - a shade named pomegranate, not cherry - around the neck of a bottle and bats her darkened eyelashes, a wordless invitation to the man across the bar who pretends not to notice as she slips in the heels she stole from her mother’s closet) STEP TWO: A DECEPTION (she lets him take her home - makes her body soft, pliant - he offers the seeds and she lets them stain her chin like a sacrifice, like blood. she smiles as she kisses him, and she lets him think that all this was his idea) STEP THREE: A KINGDOM (in this world, it it widely known that the name persephone means bringer of destruction - she is hunger, she is greed, she is want, and there is nothing more devastating than the ambition of a teenage girl)